ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Invasion of two tick-borne diseases across New England: harnessing human surveillance data to capture underlying ecological invasion processes.
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- Evolutionary ecology of Lyme Borrelia.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2020Review
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- Transplacental transmission of tick-borne Babesia microti in its natural host Peromyscus leucopus.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- Zoonotic Babesia microti in the northeastern U.S.: Evidence for the expansion of a specific parasite lineage.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Emergence of tick-borne diseases at northern latitudes in Europe: a comparative approach.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Genomic insights into the ancient spread of Lyme disease across North America.Nature ecology & evolution · 2017Article
- Predicting spatial spread of rabies in skunk populations using surveillance data reported by the public.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017Article
- Lyme disease ecology in a changing world: consensus, uncertainty and critical gaps for improving control.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Babesia microti from humans and ticks hold a genomic signature of strong population structure in the United States.BMC genomics · 2016Article
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Abstract
Modelling the spatial spread of vector-borne zoonotic pathogens maintained in enzootic transmission cycles remains a major challenge. The best available spatio-temporal data on pathogen spread often take the form of human disease surveillance data. By applying a classic ecological approach-occupancy modelling-to an epidemiological question of disease spread, we used surveillance data to examine the latent ecological invasion of tick-borne pathogens. Over the last half-century, previously undescribed tick-borne pathogens including the agents of Lyme disease and human babesiosis have rapidly spread across the northeast United States. Despite their epidemiological importance, the mechanisms of tick-borne pathogen invasion and drivers underlying the distinct invasion trajectories of the co-vectored pathogens remain unresolved. Our approach allowed us to estimate the unobserved ecological processes underlying pathogen spread while accounting for imperfect detection of human cases. Our model predicts that tick-borne diseases spread in a diffusion-like manner with occasional long-distance dispersal and that babesiosis spread exhibits strong dependence on Lyme disease.
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